✶Ad. [w]

✶Ad. [w]
The primitive semi-vowel [w] sometimes changed to or merged with [u] by the time of Classical Adûnaic (SD/419).

References ✧ SD/416, 419

Variations

Element In

Phonetic Development

Ad. [w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally wC|-w > uC|-u ✧ SD/419 ([wC|-w] > [uC|-u])
✶Ad. medial [w] and [j] vanished before [u] and [i] Xwu > Xøu ✧ SD/419 ([Xwu] > [Xøu])